At a declination of -04°25', it is visible across much of the world; it can be seen at latitudes between 65°N and 74°S.

From Cambridge, it will be visible between 19:41 and 03:45. It will become accessible around 19:41, when it rises to an altitude of 17° above your south-eastern horizon. It will reach its highest point in the sky at 23:41, 43° above your southern horizon. It will become inaccessible around 03:45 when it sinks below 18° above your south-western horizon.

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At magnitude 4.2, NGC1981 is
tricky to make out with the naked eye except from a dark site, but is visible through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE405 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.